Goldfinch Health
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Health care |
| Founded 📆 | 2018 |
| Founder 👔 | Brand Newland, PharmD, MBA John Greenwood |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Services | Health advocacy |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 10 |
| 🌐 Website | www.goldfinchhealth.com |
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Goldfinch Health, LLC. is a US health advocacy, patient advocacy and assistance company. The privately held company was founded in 2018 by Brand Newland and John Greenwood and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company employs registered nurses who guide patients throughout the surgery and recovery process and ensure patients receive the best, least-invasive care possible. The program covers a wide range of surgeries, including:
- Hip
- Knee
- Shoulder
- Back/Spine
- Breast
- Hysterectomy/Gyn
- C Section
- Colorectal
- Hernias
- Gallbladder
- Bariatric
- Thoracic
Goldfinch Health partners with employers and insurance carriers to connect employees/members with healthcare providers who are following the best standards of surgical care. This enables companies to lower their healthcare costs. Enhanced Recovery protocols lead to employees returning to work faster, thus saving companies from significant lost productivity, and dramatically reducing the need for opioid painkiller use following surgery.
The company launched after co-founders Brand and John witnessed the differences high-quality, advanced surgical experiences made, in contrast with the outdated outdated, lower-quality, unnecessarily-invasive surgical procedures most patients receive today.
Products and services[edit]
Goldfinch Health offers a revolutionary new employee benefit that works within existing health insurance networks to help ensure that people never receive a suboptimal surgery. The Goldfinch Surgery Experience is different from other solutions in three ways:
- Enhanced Surgical Pathways – access to Enhanced Surgical Pathways fast-tracks your people to recovery, minimizes opioid use and lowers the risk of infection and re-operation[1]
- Nurse Navigation – guidance from a Goldfinch Nurse Navigator helps patients understand their options throughout the surgery and recovery process and ensures they're receiving the best care possible
- Patient Outcomes – focus on patient outcomes that matter: saved days — returning people to work and life is our primary metric of success
This results in employees returning back to work and life in half the time[2] while opioid addiction is prevented[3] and high-cost surgery is better-managed. Over 90% of surgeries performed today are more invasive than necessary. This includes the size of the incision, but invasiveness extends well beyond the physical impact on the patient's body. Excessive anxiety, unnecessarily long recovery time and related economic concerns, and piles of opioids each add to the invasiveness of surgery for patients and, ultimately, for their employers.
To take this a step further, and address the issue in its simplest form, the problem Goldfinch seeks to solve is the overwhelming sense of aloneness patients feel when going into surgery alone because they know they are making important, consequential decisions without being fully informed about the available options and the potential results. No one should have to go through surgery and recovery alone.
Coverage[edit]
Employers generally offer the service to their employees as a benefit and extension to their healthcare plans. The employee's immediate family is also covered. This includes spouses, dependent children, parents and parents-in-law.
Timeline[edit]
- July 2020, ACAP HealthWorks partners with Goldfinch Health[4]
- June 2020, Inventures announces Goldfinch Health as the winner of it's Healthier Living, Broader Thinking category[5]
- February 2020, BrokerTech Ventures selects Goldfinch Health to participate in it's first accelerator program[6]
- October 2019, Texas Health Catalyst selects Goldfinch Health as 1 of 4 companies to proceed to it's Startup Consulting Phase[7]
- April 2019, Goldfinch Health joins StartUp Health's Moonshot Academy[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Vincent X. Liu, MD, MS; Efren Rosas, MD; Judith Hwang, MD, MBA. "Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program Implementation in 2 Surgical Populations in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System". JAMA Network. JAMA Surgery. Retrieved 19 July 2017.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ "Patients who undergo major operations without opioids have shorter hospital stays". MDLinx. Newswise. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ↑ "Opioid use down with 'enhanced recovery after surgery' program". Medical Press. HealthDay. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ↑ "ACAP HealthWorks enters partnership with Goldfinch Health". Business Record. Business Record. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ↑ Brunner, Dwayne. "Inventures Announces 2020 Winners of 3rd Annual Pitch Event". GlobeNewswire. Alberta Innovates. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ↑ Slobe, Jake. "BrokerTech Ventures announces 12 startups for 2020 cohort". Clay and Milk. Clay and Milk. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ↑ Weigand, Madison. "Texas Health Catalyst Works to Expand Health Ecosystem Across UT Austin & Beyond". The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. https://dellmed.utexas.edu/blog. Retrieved 5 November 2019. External link in
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